Variable | Variable symbol | Variable definitions |
Donation | giving | the natural logarithm of the total amount of corporate charitable donations |
Environmental performance | env | the natural logarithm of the total amount of sewage charges of enterprises |
Enterprise age | age | study year minus establishment year |
The scale of the enterprise | size | the natural logarithm of final asset |
liabilities | debt | asset-liability ratio |
Enterprise liquidity | slack | current asset-liability ratio |
Performance | performance | return on total assets |
Duality | dua | whether the chairman is also the CEO, yes is 1, otherwise 0 |
The education level of board | b_edu | The average of the total educational level of all directors on the board (1 = secondary and secondary school, 2 = college, 3 = undergraduate, 4 = graduate, 5 = doctoral) |
The average age of board | b_age | The average age of all the members on the board |
The shareholding ratio of the largest shareholder | first | The shareholding ratio of the largest shareholder |
The ratio of independent directors | ra_inde | The ratio of independent directors |
Industry | Industry | Industry dummy variable |
Year | Year | Year dummy variable |